Ashley Himmelstein
@potsandaspoon.bsky.social
Marine geoarchaeologist//Archaeology and Accessibility// Disabled archaeologist
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I am what an adjunct is supposed to be- I have a day job, and I am teaching a class based on my expertise in that day job. I am not using adjunct pay as a major part of my income.
And yet, students are always shocked by the reality of this stuff. If we talked about it more openly, they wouldn't be.
And yet, students are always shocked by the reality of this stuff. If we talked about it more openly, they wouldn't be.
August 12, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I am what an adjunct is supposed to be- I have a day job, and I am teaching a class based on my expertise in that day job. I am not using adjunct pay as a major part of my income.
And yet, students are always shocked by the reality of this stuff. If we talked about it more openly, they wouldn't be.
And yet, students are always shocked by the reality of this stuff. If we talked about it more openly, they wouldn't be.
Moving from a dysfunctional to healthy work environment is some whiplash
I keep wanting over explain myself and give too many personal details. Because that was what was expected before, I knew so much of my coworker and supervisors personal lives and health info
Luckily I have held myself back
I keep wanting over explain myself and give too many personal details. Because that was what was expected before, I knew so much of my coworker and supervisors personal lives and health info
Luckily I have held myself back
August 13, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Moving from a dysfunctional to healthy work environment is some whiplash
I keep wanting over explain myself and give too many personal details. Because that was what was expected before, I knew so much of my coworker and supervisors personal lives and health info
Luckily I have held myself back
I keep wanting over explain myself and give too many personal details. Because that was what was expected before, I knew so much of my coworker and supervisors personal lives and health info
Luckily I have held myself back
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Question for naval history/gunnery people. I've been asked if anyone can identify this. It was given to the museum by the Newhaven Port Authority. It is 36 inches long, and with a bore of around 3". There's no obvious maker's mark on it. #NavalHistory #Archaeology
August 13, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Question for naval history/gunnery people. I've been asked if anyone can identify this. It was given to the museum by the Newhaven Port Authority. It is 36 inches long, and with a bore of around 3". There's no obvious maker's mark on it. #NavalHistory #Archaeology
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Pretty cool to make buried monuments visible again... If only for a short while. More of this please 😊
Hanging out in Verulamium Park with @stalbansmuseums.bsky.social watching Kris @welwynarchsoc.bsky.social & Tom lay out lines of triangular temple sitting beside Watling Street. 😊
They're here till 3pm today, so come have a look if you're in the area!
#StAlbans #Archaeology #FestivalOfArchaeology
They're here till 3pm today, so come have a look if you're in the area!
#StAlbans #Archaeology #FestivalOfArchaeology
July 27, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Pretty cool to make buried monuments visible again... If only for a short while. More of this please 😊
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Not a great look to start blocking (trans games designers included) on top of everything.
Here are links for a rough timeline of events 🔗
Here are links for a rough timeline of events 🔗
Links for the Codenames Harry Potter announcement from CGE, and their response when challenged why they’re working with a bigot to make a board game.
Original post: bsky.app/profile/code...
Their response: www.czechgames.com/news/why-we-...
Them blocking en masse: clearsky.app/codenamesgam...
Original post: bsky.app/profile/code...
Their response: www.czechgames.com/news/why-we-...
Them blocking en masse: clearsky.app/codenamesgam...
CGE | Why we created the new licensed version of Codenames
www.czechgames.com
July 27, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Not a great look to start blocking (trans games designers included) on top of everything.
Here are links for a rough timeline of events 🔗
Here are links for a rough timeline of events 🔗
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June 5, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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Funding to protect American cities from extreme heat just evaporated | Grist grist.org/cities/fundi...
Funding to protect American cities from extreme heat just evaporated
NOAA's program was supposed to help cities across the country better understand and respond to the problem of extreme heat.
grist.org
June 4, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Funding to protect American cities from extreme heat just evaporated | Grist grist.org/cities/fundi...
When it starts getting hot out and you have POTS
June 5, 2025 at 12:45 PM
When it starts getting hot out and you have POTS
No matter how far you progress in your archaeology career, there will be recruiters offering you as-needed technician positions
May 6, 2025 at 12:37 PM
No matter how far you progress in your archaeology career, there will be recruiters offering you as-needed technician positions
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Jiminy Cricket!
It’s an #IceAge grasshopper!
The so-called ‘Grasshopper of Enlène’, engraved on bone some 17,000 - 14,000 years ago, is the most detailed representation of an insect in Paleolithic art known to date. From the Enlène Cave, Ariège, France. Magdalenian period.
📷 me
#Archaeology 🏺
It’s an #IceAge grasshopper!
The so-called ‘Grasshopper of Enlène’, engraved on bone some 17,000 - 14,000 years ago, is the most detailed representation of an insect in Paleolithic art known to date. From the Enlène Cave, Ariège, France. Magdalenian period.
📷 me
#Archaeology 🏺
April 30, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Jiminy Cricket!
It’s an #IceAge grasshopper!
The so-called ‘Grasshopper of Enlène’, engraved on bone some 17,000 - 14,000 years ago, is the most detailed representation of an insect in Paleolithic art known to date. From the Enlène Cave, Ariège, France. Magdalenian period.
📷 me
#Archaeology 🏺
It’s an #IceAge grasshopper!
The so-called ‘Grasshopper of Enlène’, engraved on bone some 17,000 - 14,000 years ago, is the most detailed representation of an insect in Paleolithic art known to date. From the Enlène Cave, Ariège, France. Magdalenian period.
📷 me
#Archaeology 🏺
Some people take "move your feet, lose your seat" too seriously, I was only up for a minute
April 19, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Some people take "move your feet, lose your seat" too seriously, I was only up for a minute
Oh shot I'm already 3rd in line and need to finish my current book. Time to read
Trying to pace my reading to match my position in the library's queue for borrowing my next book
April 17, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Oh shot I'm already 3rd in line and need to finish my current book. Time to read
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This is an example of how nostalgia for the old days is simply nostalgia for when you were younger.
The idea that America was a post-racial society in the 1970s/1980s only makes sense if you were literally a child at that time and couldn’t observe what any adult was experiencing.
The idea that America was a post-racial society in the 1970s/1980s only makes sense if you were literally a child at that time and couldn’t observe what any adult was experiencing.
March 23, 2025 at 3:13 PM
This is an example of how nostalgia for the old days is simply nostalgia for when you were younger.
The idea that America was a post-racial society in the 1970s/1980s only makes sense if you were literally a child at that time and couldn’t observe what any adult was experiencing.
The idea that America was a post-racial society in the 1970s/1980s only makes sense if you were literally a child at that time and couldn’t observe what any adult was experiencing.
Trying to pace my reading to match my position in the library's queue for borrowing my next book
March 24, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Trying to pace my reading to match my position in the library's queue for borrowing my next book
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This pride flag made out of NASA imagery was, for several weeks, the most-liked image on Bluesky. Then the Trump administration made NASA take it down.
The story of the pride flag made from NASA imagery: Bluesky’s most-liked image
Last June, a striking image of a pride flag made up of NASA imagery became the most-liked post on the new social media network Bluesky, a post it held for 2 months. I spoke with its creator Rachel …
buff.ly
March 4, 2025 at 11:31 PM
This pride flag made out of NASA imagery was, for several weeks, the most-liked image on Bluesky. Then the Trump administration made NASA take it down.
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This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”.
This is a manifesto against disability.
This is the language of eugenics.
This is a manifesto against disability.
This is the language of eugenics.
Establishing the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.
www.whitehouse.gov
February 17, 2025 at 9:21 PM
This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”.
This is a manifesto against disability.
This is the language of eugenics.
This is a manifesto against disability.
This is the language of eugenics.
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On behalf of the Diggers' Forum Group, if you have experience working in Field Archaeology please spare a couple of moments to fill in our questionnaire- “Wellbeing and Archaeology: Can focusing on social value have benefits for archaeologists too?”
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Wellbeing and Archaeology: Can focusing on social value have benefits for archaeologists too?
At this years CifA Conference (2025) the Diggers Forum are excited to be part of a session discussing whether a focus on social value can have benefits for archaeologists as well as the public.
Social...
docs.google.com
February 17, 2025 at 1:04 PM
On behalf of the Diggers' Forum Group, if you have experience working in Field Archaeology please spare a couple of moments to fill in our questionnaire- “Wellbeing and Archaeology: Can focusing on social value have benefits for archaeologists too?”
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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As I haven't heard/seen anything from the 5 reports I've made to @support.bsky.team, I need everyone's help to report/block the fake account of me (it copied my profile & posts) that is gaining followers and DMing people for $$$. The real me (Dr. G) has a last name that begins with N, not M. 🧪🌊⚒️
February 10, 2025 at 5:52 PM
As I haven't heard/seen anything from the 5 reports I've made to @support.bsky.team, I need everyone's help to report/block the fake account of me (it copied my profile & posts) that is gaining followers and DMing people for $$$. The real me (Dr. G) has a last name that begins with N, not M. 🧪🌊⚒️
Optimist: the cup is half full.
Pessimist: the cup is half empty.
Archaeologist: the cup is in situ
Pessimist: the cup is half empty.
Archaeologist: the cup is in situ
Optimist: the cup is half full.
Pessimist: the cup is half empty.
Geologist: the cup is the right way up.
Pessimist: the cup is half empty.
Geologist: the cup is the right way up.
Optimist: the cup is half full.
Pessimist: the cup is half empty.
Tomographer: the cup is between 0% and 100% full. Also there may not be a cup.
Receiver function specialist: there is a top and a bottom to the cup.
Pessimist: the cup is half empty.
Tomographer: the cup is between 0% and 100% full. Also there may not be a cup.
Receiver function specialist: there is a top and a bottom to the cup.
February 10, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Optimist: the cup is half full.
Pessimist: the cup is half empty.
Archaeologist: the cup is in situ
Pessimist: the cup is half empty.
Archaeologist: the cup is in situ
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Heads up American #archaeologists there is a joint resolution proposing to end the protections of Marine Archaelogical Resources. Time to call your elected reps!
February 7, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Heads up American #archaeologists there is a joint resolution proposing to end the protections of Marine Archaelogical Resources. Time to call your elected reps!
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Current LiDAR units have a resolution that we could barely imagine ten years ago but this is just ridiculous. 🧪 www.optica.org/about/newsro...
February 7, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Current LiDAR units have a resolution that we could barely imagine ten years ago but this is just ridiculous. 🧪 www.optica.org/about/newsro...
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Now more than ever archaeologists should take notice about what they wrote vs what their employer/client submitted. Famous recent case in Louisiana where a hired archaeologist recommended more work & an area avoided because of a slave cemetery. The client changed it to read "no adverse effects". 1/
February 1, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Now more than ever archaeologists should take notice about what they wrote vs what their employer/client submitted. Famous recent case in Louisiana where a hired archaeologist recommended more work & an area avoided because of a slave cemetery. The client changed it to read "no adverse effects". 1/